I Kill For The Trees!

[Guu]

But, suddenly, to everyone’s surprise, Guu turned into a deer. This immediately caught the attention of the wolves, which halted their attacks. She did a flying leap over one of them and took off into the forest, causing the whole pack to chase after her.

“Guu! Where are you going?” Shouted Undyne.

Eventually, the sounds of the wolves quieted, disappeared into the wood.

A few quiet but confused minutes passed and the princess appeared from above the canopy, back in her default form. She floated down gently to the forest floor.

“Ice Bear wants to know what that was about.” Asked Ice Bear.

“I sensed a pack of deer not far from here through my senses, thought the wolves would rather eat then fight our non-nutritious asses.”

“If you were going to spare them, why did you kill that one wolf?” Asked Sans.

“It only had a day or so to live.” Replied Guu, pointing out the large gash along it’s side. “From what my senses told me of it’s anatomy, it had a painful death ahead of it. I consider what I did a mercy.”

“We could have taken ‘em.” Said Undyne, almost insulted to be spared another chance to prove herself on the battlefield.

“Oh, I know we could, but it’s best to save your strength. Our enemy is powerful. Don’t you think Ice Bear?”

“Ice Bear doesn’t know what you mean.”

“Your smell, don’t you find something odd about the trees?”

The bear took a long drawn out wiff. At first, he didn’t feel anything of importance. Trees, there was a squirrel climbing one, there was squirrel climbing thin are.

He took a few more whiffs and looked around. A good number of trees, he could see them with his eyes, clear as day, but he could smell their presence. He walked up to one of the invisible trees and lay a paw on it. It was certainly there, it was certainly real, but according to his senses, it just didn’t register.

It was much like how he couldn’t sense Guu, how she was blocking him from detecting her. Did some of these trees have that same ability?

“Ice Bear is confused.”

“We came here to fight an evil tree, one that might be infecting the forest.” She said, touching another tree herself. “When you can detect anything, you become wary of things shrouded in darkness. That’s where the true enemy lurks.”

She pulled her hand away and faced the group.

“No matter now, we need to speak with the elves before we can deal with it.”

After a little less than an hour’s walk, they approached the clearing of the the trees, as they gave way to roots bigger than many of the houses in Ambrosia. It was a tree that stood high above the forest floor, so huge that the elves have built a giant tree house city amongst its branches. Lights lit the pathways through it, making some of the group reminisce about Christmas trees, though this was far from a pine tree.

A woman, her skin purple, her eyes glowing, her ears extending passed her green hair, rode in on top of a white tiger and paused just a few feet ahead of them. She climbed off her tiger and politely bowed to the group.

“Princess Guu I presume.” She said, looking straight at the pink one.

“Did you guess from the fact I’m the only one you can’t sense?”

“Yep!” She responded.

Guu turned to Ice Bear.

“See what I mean?” She said to her polar comrade, before turning back to the elf.

“My name is Silentwolf, I’ll be guiding you to the High Priestess if that is fine with you, your highness.”